>>Is it really
>>worth trying to belittle what should turn out to be excellent science?
>
>A serendipity case. Once more. Where is excellency exactlly,
>according to you ? I repeat that excellency would be to produce
>a theory which would have allowed to predict the MgB2
>superconductor properties. Then, the need for chance in order
>to disclose it would have been unnecessary.
"Chance favours the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur ???
but
"Non est ars quae ad effectum casu venit"
(That which achieves its effect by accident is not art)
Seneca, the Younger (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
Though if serendipity was not allowed in science?
Lachlan.
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